Luna's Travles

prologue

          "Daddy!! Your home!!" I run into my dad's arms. my dad is a shorter man of five feet nine inches, moss green eyes, A shaved head, and has pale skin. He had been at work all week. "Hey sweetie pie" he said as he picked me up and swung me into his arms. I wrap my arms around his neck "I missed you so much" I hear him give a soft laugh.

          "I missed you too" He sets me down and I run to the table to show him the picture I had drawn for him well he was gone.

          Running up to him I held up the picture. "Daddy look" he grabbed the paper from my hands. He looked at it like he looks at his work, frowning like there was something wrong with it. "Daddy, whats wrong? Do you not like it?". I try to stand on my tippy toes to try and see what was wrong. Dads frown quickly changing to a smile. "No no sweet heart, its beautiful, can I keep it?" I smile. Glad that I did a good job. "Of course daddy" I watch as he folded it and put it in his chest pocket. I go sit on the couch and start to color in my coloring book while dad walks to the kitchen to cook some dinner with mom. After a few minutes mom walks in and lets me know that she didn't realize we were out of milk and they needed it for dinner. She was going to the store and would be back in a little bit.

          Dad walked in and sat with me on the couch, he watched the TV while I try to pick up all my color pencils and finish my picture. When I heard a knock on the door. Dad gets up, The next thing I knew he come back around the corner from checking the door with a worried look on his face that scares me. "Dad whats wrong?" I get off the couch. He picks me up and rushes to the closet, swings the door open and sits me inside. " Luna sweetie, listen closely, no matter what happens do not make a sound or come out of the closet, do you understand!" Scared I nod "Good " he kisses me on my head and quickly closes the door.

          I hear as he opens the front door, peaking through the cracks I see there are two men standing there. "What are you doing hear?" dad asked. " You know why Garrett" the taller one says in a deep voice as he pushes his way into the house.

          The tall man is at least half a foot taller then my dad. He has deep brown eyes and short spiky hair, his skin a light tan. he is the complete opposite of my dad.

          The second man walked in behind the first. looking shorter than normal for a grown man, about half the size of the taller man. blond hair which looked to be around three feet long flowed behide as he walked. he had moss green eyes that matched dads.

          The two men walk in and push the door shut. " now, where is it Garrett" the taller man asked. " i don't know! i told you that." the man pushes dad against the wall with such force it made me jump a little. i want to jump out and make them stop, but i know that would be a bad idea. i continue to make sure not to make a sound, just as dad told me to do.

          "Tell us were to find it or your dead" the small one said in a scruff voice, pulling out a small gun. Dad put his hands up " i dont know!! what part of that do you not understand!". The taller one pulled back his arm and punched dad strait in the face. I could see blood start running from his nose.

          I hold my hands over my mouth to keep from screaming, to keep them from hearing me. Dad just pulls his head up and looks the man in the eyes " fuck you, you'll never find it!" dad trys to punch the man. The man grabbs dads hand and twists it behind him, pushing him to the floor.

          "grab your phone, now!" The man growled in dad ear. "Why the fuck would i do that"
         
          "because if you don't, the girl you call sarah will die by my hand". Horror crossed dads face. I've never heard of this girl. She must be important, i watch as dad pulls his phone from his pocket and goes to hand it to the man.

" call your wife, and tell her your leaving for another work trip" the man demands.

Shaking i see dad tap the screen a few time. He had it on speaker so the men could hear.
I stay silent as i hear it start to ring. It goes strait to voice mail. " hey honey, im sorry, work just called and i have to go. I love you".

As soon as he hung up the shorter stands behind dad and shoots him in the back. Its like the world slowed down as i watched his body fall to the floor.

The large man pick dad up with ease and carrys him out the door. The small man stay for a minute longer, he pours a bottle of something over the blood on the floor, and the next thing i know the blood is gone.

The man walked out the door closing it behind him. I run out the closet and swing the door open. They were gone.